The Times - Cryptic - March 30, 2015 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26059 - March 30, 2015

Clues	Answers
A university town's expression of contempt for western motorway	AUTOBAHN
Bargain goods in robust container	HAGGLE
Bird keeper's son meeting pale woman's daughter	SWANHERD
Bloke protecting Grand Duke — a desperado	BRIGAND
Civic dignitary's wife in service long ago	MAYORESS
Fighting to keep hospital, argument finally gets across	ATHWART
Girl to chart, we hear, organic compound	ANALOGUE
Hard work keeping whistle-blower in clover!	TREFOIL
In Gordonstoun it educates one	UNITED
It keeps musicians in time more? Not me, unfortunately	METRONOME
Large person bringing in apprentice	LEARNER
Literary creator of a universal god?	AUTHOR
Nasal tone originally widespread in Chinese dynasty	TWANG
Obvious implications an individual's missed	OVERT
Occasions this writer's noted in one of our supplements	TIMES

Clues	Answers
One who philosophised about part of company	PLATOON
Ordinary people's witty saying about detective with nag?	TOMDICKANDHARRY
Outdoor work in Continental broadcast	OPENAIR
Preservative regularly on show in the Heraklion area	CREOSOTE
Pressure on playwright provoking expression of impatience	PSHAW
Pursue wife at church given duty for rating?	DOGWATCH
Reasonable pay for casual worker consuming little energy	TEMPERATE
Remove locks in frustration, becoming "distressed"?	TEARONESHAIROUT
Retire, wasting first night initially in Italian city	TURIN
Scottish engineer given key to the French painter	WATTEAU
Sporty person putting up prices, perhaps?	HIKER
Strangely, it's not a stock farm down under	STATION
Supplier of eggs finally eaten in club in the morning	BANTAM
Took in popular law lord in last month's rise	INCLUDED
Walking steadily round lake, or dabbling barefoot in it	PADDLING